Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, 1 for this is not a people of understanding. 1 Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and he who made them will not be merciful to them. 1

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When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

In Context

10For the fortified city is desolate, the habitation is deserted and forsaken like the wilderness. 1 There a calf feeds, and there he lies down and consumes its branches. 1

12It will come about on that day 1 that Yahweh will thresh from the Euphrates River to the Wadi of Egypt 1 and you, the people of Israel, will be gathered together one by one. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 6:6Yahweh regretted that he had made mankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

Deuteronomy 4:6Therefore keep them and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear about all these statutes and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'

Deuteronomy 32:28For Israel is a nation devoid of wisdom, 1 and there is no understanding in them. 1

Psalms 80:15This is the root that your right hand planted, 1 the shoot that you made to grow. 1

Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's feeding trough, 1 but Israel does not know, Israel does not understand.” 1

Isaiah 43:1But now this is what Yahweh says, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: 1 “Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 27:8-13

Correction and Compassion. ( b. c. 718.) 7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him? 8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind. 9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand… Read the whole commentary →

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